Byobu

[C de-Avillez]

On 11/11/2010 06:12 PM, Christopher Lemire wrote:
> I found some software hidden in Ubuntu that configures screen pretty
> nicely. If you are running Ubuntu 10.10, right click Applications,
> Edit Menu, go to Accessories and Tick Byobu Window Manager. Once
> you've got it running, F9 brings up the menu. 

Yes, I like it (although I think only people that really work on the
command-line -- plus remote systems -- will appreciate it).

> I'm still looking
> through the scripts to see where the terminal window is launched, so I
> can get a wider default terminal to display all the info I've got it
> configured to.

It will inherit whatever setting the terminal emulator running it has.
It will also readjust on-the-fly if you resize the terminal window. For
example, On my panel I have both gnome-terminal and xfce4-terminal set
to be called with '--maximise'. For gnome-terminal this is:

gnome-terminal --maximize --command=byobu

So whenever I call it, g-t (and byobu) takes over all the workspace.

It comes specially handy when you are doing a long-term work (like
applying patches), and you lose the session to wherever you were SSH-ing
in to.

Frankly, I cannot see why it is not yet the default environment on an
Ubuntu server.

Cheers,

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